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Depression and anxiety in the community: replicating the diagnosis of a case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Robert Jones-Finlay ,
George W. Brown ,
Paul Duncan-Jones ,
Tirril Harris ,
Elaine Murphy  and
Ray Prudo
Robert Jones-Finlay*
Affiliation:
Social Research Unit, Bedford College, London
George W. Brown
Affiliation:
Social Research Unit, Bedford College, London
Paul Duncan-Jones
Affiliation:
Social Research Unit, Bedford College, London
Tirril Harris
Affiliation:
Social Research Unit, Bedford College, London
Elaine Murphy
Affiliation:
Social Research Unit, Bedford College, London
Ray Prudo
Affiliation:
Social Research Unit, Bedford College, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr R. Finlay-Jones, Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2600.
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Synopsis

The diagnoses were reviewed of 866 women interviewed in 5 community surveys carried out by the Bedford College team. The diagnoses matched commonly held conceptions of who is a case in terms of both severity and type of syndrome. Two methods of replicating the diagnoses are presented, one based on discriminant function analysis and the other based on a simple checklist.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1980 , pp. 445 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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